Deadline: 02-Jun-2024
The Northland Community Foundation is inviting applications for the Northland Grassroots Fund to support community groups and charitable organisations who deliver initiatives that help Families/Whānau by supporting:
- the wellbeing of tamariki/children through their early years
- the wellbeing of rangatahi/young people
- the wellbeing of whānau/families
The Community Fund is kindly supported by The Tindall Foundation in the form of a sub-fund called the Grassroots Fund.
Northland Community Foundation is proud to be a Local Donation Manager for The Tindall Foundation in the Northland region for the Family/Whānau Focus Area.
By contributing to this fund, you will enable them to support more of the excellent projects that are proposed by and for the local communities.
The Grassroots Fund provides grants of between $1,000 and $15,000 for initiatives that aim to improve the lives of Northland people in the long-term. The grants panel receives applications once per year and prioritises applications from small organisations run mostly by volunteers in the local community.
Focus Areas
- Please ensure that your project fits within the Focus Areas:
- Family
- Community
- Environment
Funding Information
- The Northland Grassroots Fund grants around $90,000 each year to worthy causes and charities in Northland. Organisations can apply for a grant of up to $15,000.
What they fund?
- They are looking for initiatives for families that: Support the wellbeing of tamariki/children through their early years by:
- Enhancing the capability of parents.
- Supporting early childhood development, including language and literacy development, and social behaviour skills.
- Support the wellbeing of rangatahi/young people by:
- Promoting a positive youth development sector and growing its capacity.
- Focusing on early intervention/prevention strategies for young people.
- Supporting initiatives which promote identity and participation and equality of young people, particularly youth-led initiatives.
- Working systemically to address youth employment, especially for those most distanced from the labour market.
- Supporting and advocating for tamariki/children and rangatahi/young people, especially children in care, or the prevention of children needing to be taken into care.
- Support the wellbeing of whānau/families by:
- Providing and assisting whānau/families into stable, healthy, and affordable housing – especially home ownership.
- Supporting the wellbeing of whānau/families in a holistic way, ensuring that their goals and aspirations are at the centre.
- Promoting violence free homes.
- Strengthening the identity and culture of whānau/families.
- support whānau/families back into housing, those which support people who are homeless etc.
- They are more likely to support initiatives that:
- Support whānau/families experiencing multiple and intergenerational disadvantage
- Put whānau/families at the centre
- Use kaupapa Māori models of practice
- Work holistically
- Focus on long-term solutions
- Work in collaboration
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to apply for a Grassroots grant your group should be working in the Northland community. Your project/initiative should be helping Families/Whānau by supporting the wellbeing of tamariki/children, rangatahi/young people, and/or whānau/families.
Ineligible
- Core or Public Health Service, medical care, medical equipment, medical research, clinical health initiatives (within mental or physical health) or disabilities services, hospitals, and hospices. This includes initiatives where the ‘entry criteria’ for service users means that they have a physical, mental health or addiction issue or are living with a disability.
- Core Education in universities, colleges, schools, or early childhood centres, including programmes, scholarships, equipment, or other activities that are curriculum related.
- Research from outside a community without its direct involvement.
- Sport, Leisure and Recreation including high-performance sport, sports clubs’ operational or programme costs, sport equipment, events, trips, and competitions.
- The arts including art, drama or performing arts, museums, and galleries.
- Overseas organisations or projects outside the geographic borders of Aotearoa New Zealand, overseas travel and expenses, and exchange programmes.
- Individuals including scholarships, international travel to conferences, events or for research.
- Buildings or land
- Animal charities
- Capital assets or equipment over $3,000.
- Personal loans.
- Endowment funds.
For more information, visit Northland Community Foundation.